Lamar Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Houston
Tract 48201421104 · Harris, TX · pop 4,088 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
48201421104 is a census tract in the Lamar Terrace area of Houston, TX. It scores 5.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,088. Adults with no health insurance runs 54.5% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Houston and the region
Centroid at 29.7230, -95.4805 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lamar Terrace scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Lamar Terrace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 230Total filings 2020-21
- 3.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.98×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Houston, TX as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lamar Terrace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Lamar Terrace
100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 50.7% against 31.5% nationally.
The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
At $936 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Houston commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Against the Harris County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
Cost burden runs 55% here against 49.5% across Harris County. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the TX average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $42,959.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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